How Much Money Will You Spend as a T+F Spectator This Year?

Spent $100 benji's for NCAA indoors, another $1500 for all-session Olympic Trials tickets.

$450 - Tickets to the Trials

$250 - Dorm room lodging at trials

$250 - airline flight

So, about $1000. I am hoping I can sell some of my trials tickets as I am only going for the first 4 days.

Probably in ballpark of $150, all in the form of food and beer at a local bar where I occasionally commandeer a television when a meet worth watching on tv at a reasonable hour.

In my entire life I have paid roughly $100 for tickets to meets, including Penn Relays once and the good indoor meet at the Reggie Lewis Center at Boston twice, whatever that one is called these days (the last time I attended it was in 2003, at which time it was called the Adidas Boston Indoor Classic - I don't recall what it's called now).

SimonSaysSPEND wrote:

$450 - Tickets to the Trials

$250 - Dorm room lodging at trials

$250 - airline flight

So, about $1000. I am hoping I can sell some of my trials tickets as I am only going for the first 4 days.

About the same for me, minus the airline flight (driving from Portland). Plus another weekend trip down for Pre Classic (tix were like $30). Plus $15 bucks for the Diamond League live streams if Universal does that again.

So, a lot this year. Most years I don't even approach $75.

Probably in the range of $100-150. Between a few pro meets, a few high school meets, online stuff (universal sports), I could easily see it ending up around there.

I'll probably spend £50 ($75) at the Olympics (cheap seats on a decent day where there are some actual good races), maybe go to a Diamond League meet or two for €20 ($27), and perhaps some smaller meets in Belgium for maybe €5 ($7). So ballpark I'd say just over $100.

Let's See......Payton Jordon, then a quick trip to LA for the OXY meet, then Pre-Fontaine followed quickly by the Olympic Trials and hopefully London for the Big Show.

Probably more than my Master Card can take. Priceless

Let's See......Payton Jordon, then a quick trip to LA for the OXY meet, then Pre-Fontaine followed quickly by the Olympic Trials and hopefully London for the Big Show.

Probably more than my Master Card can take. Priceless

Wow, after reading this thread more I didn't realize US Olympic trials tickets cost more than Olympic Games tickets. Significantly, in some cases. Maybe 'cause my seats will be really shitty.

den bosch wrote:

Wow, after reading this thread more I didn't realize US Olympic trials tickets cost more than Olympic Games tickets. Significantly, in some cases. Maybe 'cause my seats will be really shitty.

The Trials tix people are mentioning are for all 8 days though. So like $50 per session. Still kind of alot if you ask me, but its like watching the All Star game eight times in 10 days.

Another factor, size of stadium. I am sure Hayward is like 5 times smaller than the Olympic Stadium.

pre-fontaine? the meeet before the french word for fountain? is that a fancy french steeple meet?

After adding up travel, tickets, lodging, and food at all the events I went to as a spectator, about $0.00. And I cherry pick my races very carefully and make about $500 a year on road races.

This year:

New Balance Indoor GP at Boston: $44

Penn: expected $50

Reebok Grand Prix NYC: expected $30

Local league championship: $5-$10

2012 Total: $129-134

My most expensive year so far was 2010:

Reebok BIGs: $60

Millrose: guessing $40

Penn: $50

NYC Adidas Grand prix: $20

Pre: guessing $100

2010 ttl: ~$270

Concerned Citizen wrote:

Joe Ratings wrote:

Wow!!

Gee, with spending totals like this, ABC and ESPN should be able to start a separate Track and field network!!!

That is,if they can fight off the others clamoring for the demographic.

You do realize that most of the people who watch football, basketball and baseball on those networks will spend $0 as a spectator on those sports, right? That's because they make their money from advertising (or that and cable bills in ESPN's case).

Exactly.

Most football and basketball fans spend little money actually ever going to games. They might buy a pair a shoes or a jersey because their favorite player wears it though.

Likewise, I bought a pair of casual nike lunar glides as ridiculous as it sounds because they looked cool on one of the Jerry Schumacher guys when he was wearing them casually.

I also watch track and field meets whenever they are on tv. These are the types of things that are analogous to interest in other major sports.

Trying to figure out how many entry fees you paid to track meets just is not a good comparison for judging how much money the sport can bring in.

$0.

I run masters 400, 5K, 10K. I coach 400, 15, 8.

I don't have cable TV nor pay for internet shows.

I have OTA HDTV and ADSL at home.

$600 already on trials tickets. I may attend an Oregon meet which would be another $15 and then I'll probably attend the Pre Classic. So in total I may hit $700. In a normal year though it'd be less than a hundred.

My opinion on the if you should count cable is yes (sort of). I watch many shows on cable but one of major reasons I didn't cancel recently is the Olympic and Trials this year.

OrganGrinder wrote:

The Trials tix people are mentioning are for all 8 days though. So like $50 per session. Still kind of alot if you ask me, but its like watching the All Star game eight times in 10 days.

Another factor, size of stadium. I am sure Hayward is like 5 times smaller than the Olympic Stadium.

I see, that's more reasonable I guess. Though if you want to sit in the front row during the 100m finals of the Olympics, that equates to over a grand I'm sure.

Since we have a relationship of ours who is a world class runner and we follow this person everywhere? And this is an Olympic year? Probably.....

$40-50K on travel expenses alone (maybe more)

25K plus on Olympic tickets.